State of the Center for Community Modeling and Analyses System (CMAS) - PowerPoint Presentation

1. State of the Center for Community Modeling and Analyses System (CMAS) – 18 Years Serving the CommunitySarav ArunachalamActing Director, CMAS Center18th Annual CMAS ConferenceOctober 21 – 23, 2019Chapel Hill, NC

2. The CMAS Center at UNChttps://www.cmascenter.org/ Established in 2001, the U.S. EPA’s CMAS Center has been hosted at UNC since 2003, which works with the agency to lead the international, open-source, community-based air quality modeling and analysis software used to develop policies and analyze air quality impactsObjectivesServe as bridge between segments of the AQ modeling communityFoster growth of developer and user communitiesServe as hub for modeling education and trainingFunctionsModel Research and DevelopmentUser SupportApplications and TrainingOutreach

3. Illustrative News Alerts“The new [Transport] rules would bring $120 billion in annual health benefits. These include preventing 14,000 to 36,000 premature deaths, 23,000 nonfatal heart attacks, 21,000 cases of acute bronchitis, 240,000 cases of aggravated asthma and 1.9 million missed school and work days.” - New York Times (July 2010)“The new [Ozone] standard will result in health benefits valued at $2 billion to $19 billion and cost an estimated $7.6 billion to $8.5 billion, the agency [EPA] said in an e-mailed release.”- Bloomberg.com (March 2008)

4. CMAS Modeling and Analysis Tools (1 of 2)Modeling (Regional)CMAQ, Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling SystemSMOKE, Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emission modeling SystemModeling (Dispersion of Near Source Releases)R-LINE, Research LINE source dispersion ModelC-LINE, Community-LINE Source ModelC-PORT, Community PORT ModelModeling (Architecture, Design and Coupling)I/O API, Input/Output Applications Programming InterfaceMCIP, Meteorology Chemistry Interface ProcessorSpatial AllocatorSpeciation ToolFEST-C, Fertilizer Emission Scenario Tool MODEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

5. CMAS Modeling and Analysis Tools (2 of 2)Analysis and VisualizationVERDI, Visualization Environment for Rich Data InterpretationPAVE, Package for Analysis and Visualization of Environmental data (deprecated)Model EvaluationAMET, Atmospheric Model Evaluation ToolPolicy and PlanningCoST, Control Strategy ToolEMF, Emissions Modeling FrameworkBenMAP, Benefits Mapping and Analysis ProgramABaCAS, Air Benefit and Cost and Assessment SystemMODEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

6. CMAS Global FootprintUSER SUPPORT

7. CMAS Discourse Forumhttp://forum.cmascenter.org USER SUPPORT

8. CMAS Data Warehousehttps://dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse.xhtml?alias=cmascenter Uses DataVerse An open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, analyze dataFacilitates data access, and allows to replicate others' work more easilyResearchers, journals, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive academic credit and web visibilityEach Dataverse entry linked to a unique DOI, enabling easy citation, discoveryOpen-access database for collecting and disseminating model dataIncludes meteorology, emissions and air quality model inputs and outputsDataVerse does not contain data files; however, each dataset description includes instructions on how to obtain the downloadable dataAll data stored on UNC’s portal to the Google cloudMaintained as a public service by the CMAS CenterIn collaboration with the U.S. EPA’s ORD and OARUSER SUPPORT

9. CMAS Data WarehouseEmissions (NEI)Met (WRF/MCIP)AQ (CMAQ)ObservationsData Warehouse on Google CloudReportingVisualizationModeling25 TB and GrowingUSER SUPPORT

10. CMAS Data Warehouse- both for and from the communityCurrent datasets available for CMAS communityCMAQ outputs – hourly and daily2002 – 2016 @ 12x12-km for Continental U.S.NEI Emissions Inventories2014 V7.1 and 2016 Beta, and V1MCIP 2015, 2016 @ 12x12-km for Continental U.S.CMAQ Northern Hemispheric Outputs2016 @ 108x108-km for extracting custom IC/BCsInteractive Forms interface to share datasets from researchers to othersUSER SUPPORT

11. Model DownloadsFEST-C v1.4SMOKE v4.6Spatial Allocator v4.4VERDI v2.0βCoST/EMF v3.2 and v3.3C-LINE v5.1CMAQ v5.3Model Releases during 2018 – 2019USER SUPPORT

12. Training – both Onsite and OffsiteTwice a year onsite at UNCRecently started to transition to online trainingConducted international training sessionsBrazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, S. KoreaSpecial trainingsPython for Air Quality Research and ApplicationsModel Interpretive AnalysesAPPLICATIONS AND TRAINING

13. Collaboration and Information SharingCMAS ConferencesAnnually at Chapel Hill, NC during October18th Annual Conference (October 21 – 23, 2019)AsiaCMAS – Asia Pacific Conference (Beijing, China in May 2018)CMAS – Asia Pacific Conference (Japan in May 2022)*South America4th CMAS South America Conference (July 2019)5th CMAS South America Conference (July 2021) *WebinarsWebinar series on special topics or new releasesCMAS Visiting Scientist Program2018: Brazil, Hong Kong, Aveiro (Portugal)2019: Brazil, China Peer-reviewed Journal ArticlesJ. Air and Waste Mgmt Assoc (from CMAS 2019)OUTREACH

14. CMAS Center TeamDirector and OutreachSarav Arunachalam (Acting)Research and ApplicationsSarav ArunachalamTraining and ConferenceB.H. BaekUser Support and DocumentationLiz AdamsCommunications and EventsBrian NaessEmily WilliamsTechnical EditingKurt ThurberArastoo Pour Biazar (Univ Alabama)Tyler Fox (US EPA)Amir Hakami (Carleton Univ)Prakash Karamchandani (Ramboll)Byeong-Uk Kim (GA EPD)Naresh Kumar (EPRI)Rebecca Matichuk (US EPA)Mike Moran (Env Canada)Talad Odman (Ga Tech)Roger Timmis (Env Agency, UK)Taciana Toledo (UFMG, Brazil) Neil Wheeler (Science-One)Yang Zhang (NCSU)@ UNCExternal Advisory Committee (EAC)

15. AcknowledgementsAdel Hanna, CMAS DirectorWe wish him a speedy recoveryCMAS Community and EAC MembersU.S. EPATom Pierce, U.S. EPA ORDCMAS Center Program OfficerElectric Power Research InstituteSponsoring the Student Poster awards

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